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Laughter Matters:
Coping with Chaos and Change
Laughter MattersTM is a high-energy, participatory playshop designed to help those who are serious, dignified and professional, lighten up. This playful, skill-building session creates an atmosphere of fun in order to solve our human problems. We will explore techniques for getting through life, love and loss, trials and tribulations, and all that not-so-funny stuff. We will explore "de-light" and "de-dark". Good humor creates a sense of joy in being alive. A sense of humor is a developed perspective, an attitude that allows for a sense of control in this change-crazed world. Using a humor perspective can help individuals and organizations stay fluid and flexible in trying and changing times. People who play together, stay together. In fact, people who play together in the workplace have increased morale, increased cooperation, increased productivity and profitability, decreased sick time, and decreased tension. Come learn how to lighten up, muster mirth and cope with chaos, change and crisis.
Audience: 30-6000
Length: Keynote, Half-Day or Full Day
Laughter Matters
TM can focus on:
- Coping with Change and Transition
- Team Building
- Celebration
- Conflict Management
- The Light Manager
This workshop can be as experiential or as theoretical as you'd like, depending on the size and composition of the group. You pick the length, focus, and topics.
Topics can include:
- Laughter, Humor and Play Definitions
- Coping with Change and Transition
- Letting Go of Control
- Healing Interval Breaks: Ideas and Techniques, Humor Mantras, Finding your sense of perspective. Hands-on activities that promote laughter, mirth and fun.
- Humor in the Workplace: The message of silliness, Taking jobs seriously while taking yourself lightly, the worth of mirth, how funny business intersects with the bottom line.
- The Role of Catharsis: The Catharsis Model and its relationship to healing
- Terminal Seriousness: On being dead serious about your job
- Humor Skills: activities to bring more playfulness, energy and laughter to your life
- Shame: The thief that robs us of our spontaneity.
- Overcoming Fear of Foolishness, Failure and Embarrassment. Its relationship to risk-taking, shame, stopping ourselves short from being in the moment.
- "The Healing Circle" A very powerful exercise based on Native American traditions. "Healing can only occur in community." An exercise on giving and receiving. Great for natural work groups who are coping with chaos and change.
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